Alka-Seltzer ad by MAD Magazine alumn Wally Wood (1967).
French poster for Pixar’s Inside Out by Stacey Aoyama (2014).
A special thanks to Jim Korkis at Cartoon Research for the Alka-Seltzer ad. In a recent ‘Animation Anecdotes‘ post, Korkis gathered together a bunch of deliciously demented storyboards Wood drew for an animated version of this ad. To check those out, click here.
(Or: Some interesting ways to get some variety into those boring panels where some dumb writer has a bunch of lame characters sitting around talking for page after page!)
Awesome, ain’t it? Even when Wally Wood is doling out solid comics craft advice, he’s still the same sarcastic and subversion sonuvabitch we fell in love with in MAD Magazine.
In a similarly sarcastic and subversive gesture, Powers artist Michael Avon Oeming recently re-drew this chart as an “homage” to Wood. Oeming, as you may remember, is the long-term collaborator of comics scribe (and master at staging scenes where characters are “sitting around talking for page after page”) Brian Micheal Bendis. Coincidence?
Related: Wally Wood’s ‘Comic Strip Character Christmas Party’
Looking to lose yourself in some nostalgic nuttiness? Check out this double-page spread by Wally Wood (art) and George Belkin (script) from Mad #68, circa 1962.
To see the original, uncut Bristol board image, click the link below!
